20 December 2024
This month Schmidt Ocean posted a stupendous deep sea video from their deep sea rover’s voyage off the Pacific coast of South America.
11 Dec 2024: After 55 days of exploration, the #ChileMargin2024 expedition crew is heading residence. Researchers have been exploring alongside a margin the place a submerged continental shelf extends from the nation’s west coast and drops steeply and immediately into the Pacific Ocean.
Did you see the rocks and cliffs within the video? In case you may see your entire formation with out the ocean in the way in which, it’s truly a really steep mountain vary from the underside of the ditch to the highest of the Andes, greater than 15,000 meters or about 49,300 toes(*) with squids on the backside and birds on the prime.
This space is so deep as a result of the Nazca Plate is subducting below the South American Plate, inflicting the Andes to rise and the Peru-Chile Trench to plunge deeper.
And who’s the creature with the massive eyes and cockatoo crest? Study extra on this brief video from Schmidt Ocean on Instagram.
(*) The Himalayas are 8,849 meters (29,032 toes).
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